Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.